Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach

PDF | With this third edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach, we enter the new era of GRASS6, the first release that includes substantial new code .
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These installations include millions of acres of lands needed for military training and testing.

1 - Introduction to Open Source GIS - Open Source GIS

Other uses included wildlife management, hunting and fishing and forestry, grazing and agricultural production. Other priorities were added through legislation — such as protecting endangered species and habitats, protecting cultural sites, and limiting the on and off-post impacts of noise, ordnance, contaminants and sediments. Military land managers were unable to cope with the challenge of examining proposed new actions such as new weapon firing ranges or new vehicle training routes without improved methods to gather, integrate and visualize their data and to examine alternative courses of action.


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Given this need, a group of then young researchers at CERL elected to develop their own set of initial landscape analysis tools. The other costs involved in implementing GIS acquiring data and hardware, learning GIS skills and computer maintenance skills were so high; CERL decided that no-fee software could reduce the technology hurdle involved in implementing GIS. This proved to be true — and U.

Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach

Once our efforts began, software development took on a life of its own. The Open Source code and Internet accessible software soon sparked the creative energies of numerous other organizations and individuals, and many began to use GRASS and contribute capabilities. At CERL, a small-scale skunk works project became the biggest and hottest program in the lab.


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Dozens of persons were employed developing new tools, building digital databases, assisting with complex applications and fielding the technology across the Department of Defense. Because of the requirement to analyze alternative actions and to evaluate impacts of actions on continuous surfaces of differing elevations and vegetation and soil types, GRASS development was focused on raster analysis tools.

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At the time, this focus set GRASS apart from marketplace capabilities, which were primarily based on vector data and tools and did not include image analysis. For several years, the lab and lab partners also offered newsletters, developed formal interagency partnerships primarily with the U.

Department of Agriculture and National Park Service and held annual software user meetings. Hardcover , pages.


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